On 25 February, Year 9 students visited Fremantle as part of their History program. The purpose of the excursion was to collect primary source information, in particular photographs, for use in an inquiry task where students will create a historical fiction narrative based on the life of a convict or free settler who arrived in Fremantle and spent time in the Swan River Colony.
Students toured the Fremantle Prison under the direction of tour guides and were given the opportunity to take photographs of the cells that once housed some of the Swan River Colony’s most notorious convicts. We visited the Round House, where the students learnt of the story of John Gavin, the first European to be hanged in Western Australia. Students also visited the Western Australian Museum - Shipwrecks Gallery where they explored a range of artefacts pertaining to the first European contacts with the Western Australian coastline and gained a sense of the perils of voyaging to the Great South Land.
The students made excellent use of their iPads, utilising this technology to capture a wide range of photographs and written sources of information and they returned to school inspired to write some intriguing historical narratives.
Ms Karen Taylor
Learning Area Coordinator - Humanities
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